2024 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge: Day 21
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
One month. FADE IN to FADE OUT. Creativity meets Productivity.
Zero Draft Thirty: Day 21.
Write an entire draft of a script in September — FADE IN. FADE OUT. Or any sort of creative goal you have in front of you.
Feature length movie screenplay. Original TV pilot. Rewrite a current project. Break a story in prep. Generate a month’s worth of story concepts.
Whatever you feel will ratchet your creative ambitions into overdrive…
DO THAT!
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Today’s Writing Quote
“Character IS plot. Character IS story.”
— Eleanor Perry
Today’s Inspirational Video
You. Can. Do. It.
Today’s Anita Loos Award winner: Mateusz Madry.
The other day over at the Zero Draft Thirty Facebook group page, Mateusz posted this.
One of the most popular screenwriting mantras I’ve come up with over the years is this one: Watch movies. Read scripts. Write pages.
That’s one way of summing up what we must do to learn the craft of screenwriting.
It’s that second part — Read scripts — which is a stumbling block for many writers. Hence, my response to Mateusz:
Here are those links:
For this reminder about the importance of reading scripts, today’s Anita Loos Award goes to Mateusz Madry!
Congratulations, Mateusz! Feel to print this award and post it at your writing desk for inspiration.
To learn more about Anita Loos and her illustrious career as a screenwriter, playwright, director, and journalist, go here.
For your chance to win the Anita Loos Award, one given away each day during the Challenge, post something inspiring, here on the blog, via Twitter, or the Facebook group.
For background on how the Zero Draft Challenge came to be and what it is, go here, here, and here.
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SCAMPER ON!
Onward!